Turning Climate Commitments into Urgent Local and Regional Resilience Actions

Climate change impacts are accelerating across Europe, manifesting as floods, droughts, wildfires, heat stress, water scarcity, eutrophication, and coastal salinization. The need to translate high-level climate commitments into actionable, region-specific adaptation strategies is more urgent than ever. Across Europe’s diverse biogeographical regions such as the Atlantic, Arctic, Boreal, Coastal, Continental, Mediterranean, and Mountain zones, local communities are at the frontline of these challenges.

This Research Topic focuses on systemic, cross-sectoral approaches that leverage digital innovation, knowledge co-creation, and participatory governance to support climate adaptation at local and regional scales. Emphasis is placed on integrated decision-support tools (including AI-enabled platforms), Resilience Knowledge Boosters, and the development of shared infrastructures for data, modelling, and stakeholder engagement.

We are looking for contributions that explore scalable solutions, mechanisms for climate services uptake, and methods for accelerating just and inclusive transitions through multi-level governance and regional innovation ecosystems.

This Research Topic is inspired by the EU-founded project IMPETUS.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Conceptual Analysis
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• ... View all formats

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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Conceptual Analysis
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Policy and Practice Reviews
• Policy Brief
• Review
• Study Protocol
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Climate adaptation, Biogeographical regions, Adaptation Pathways, Decision-support tools, Digital innovation, Climate services, regional resilience, systemic approaches, multi-level governance

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.